Archaea
[H]F Junkie
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I've seen some good hardware deals lately and decided to build a system on the side to see how it sells on eBay or Craigslist.
As a long time PC hobbiest I enjoy building systems, so it isn't really work per se, and if I can make a couple hundred bucks while at it, hey why not?
I checked out eBay sold listings and it appeared, rationally, that the best profit margins were on the no holds barred entries. So with that in mind I bought some new high end parts through microcenter, and Newegg --- on reasonable sales and will see how it goes.
I figure worst I can do is basically break even and basically dontate my time because of the combo prices and passion for finding deals and tinkering with overclocking.
Have any of you tried this? Is it a money losing proposition? Break even? Profitable?
I'm building a closed loop water cooled 1080ti rig with a 7700k presumably overclocked to 5ghz, 32GB RGB ram, 1080ti, nice flashy case with all the RGB options tricked out, evo 960 nvme SSD OS drive and 2tb firecuda sshd for games and an 8TB WD RED drive for long term archiving. Overkill and quite pretty!
It used to be you couldn't touch prices for systems from the big players, especially considering the OS inclusion, support, etc (Dell, HP, Alienware, etc) --- but these days - with internet vendors, newegg, amazon, microcenter - etc - you can potentially match or beat their prices -- even if only slightly -- and you can definitely beat their quality/feature list for the price (bigger PSU, more bells and whistles on motherboards, overclocking, lack of bloatware, etc).
I'm curious as to others' experiences with this in recent times.
As a long time PC hobbiest I enjoy building systems, so it isn't really work per se, and if I can make a couple hundred bucks while at it, hey why not?
I checked out eBay sold listings and it appeared, rationally, that the best profit margins were on the no holds barred entries. So with that in mind I bought some new high end parts through microcenter, and Newegg --- on reasonable sales and will see how it goes.
I figure worst I can do is basically break even and basically dontate my time because of the combo prices and passion for finding deals and tinkering with overclocking.
Have any of you tried this? Is it a money losing proposition? Break even? Profitable?
I'm building a closed loop water cooled 1080ti rig with a 7700k presumably overclocked to 5ghz, 32GB RGB ram, 1080ti, nice flashy case with all the RGB options tricked out, evo 960 nvme SSD OS drive and 2tb firecuda sshd for games and an 8TB WD RED drive for long term archiving. Overkill and quite pretty!
It used to be you couldn't touch prices for systems from the big players, especially considering the OS inclusion, support, etc (Dell, HP, Alienware, etc) --- but these days - with internet vendors, newegg, amazon, microcenter - etc - you can potentially match or beat their prices -- even if only slightly -- and you can definitely beat their quality/feature list for the price (bigger PSU, more bells and whistles on motherboards, overclocking, lack of bloatware, etc).
I'm curious as to others' experiences with this in recent times.
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